BBCNEWS BBC News September 1, 2021 09:04:00
Afghans who helped us, citizens of our allies and partners and others on board planes and out of the country. but this was a president on the defensive, widely criticised for the way and apparent haste with which america withdrew from afghanistan, leaving some us citizens behind. mr biden insisted he was right to end the "forever war" and not to extend what he called the "forever exit". he laid the blame in part at donald trump for doing a deal with the taliban, but also with afghan government forces. the assumption was that more than 300,000 afghan national security forces that we had trained...